The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-17
Religious Notes.

Bovee: A sound discretion is not so much in
Dictated by never making mistake as by never
repeating it.
Plrtarch: Do not speak Of your happiness to
q man less fortunate than Yourself
We, gazing through the cloud and mist,
The pearly gates behold;
The jasper and the amethyst:
And streets of shining gold;
UNTIL without. we yet begin
The joyful song they chant within
During the last twenty-five years 20 00O 600
Bibles and Testaments and portions OF Scripture,
in twenty-six languages. have been circulated In
Great Britain and abroad from the Crys.al-pal
ace Bible stand in London by voluntary helpers.
George Macdonald: Depend upon it. in the
midst of all the science about the world and its
ways. and all the ignorance OF God and Ills
greatness, the man or woman who can say. ''Thy
will be done," with true heart forgiving us, is
nearer the secret OF things than the geologist
and theologian
The path of life we walk to-day
Is strange that the Hebrews trod;
We need the shadowing rock as they.
We need, like them. the guides OF God
God send his angels. cloud and fire.
To lead us DER the desert sand!
God give our hearts their long desire.
His shadow III a weary land.
Daniel Webster: If we work upon marble, it
will PERISH if we work upon brass, time will ef-
face IT, if we rear tenn pies, they will crumble in
we i'm bue them with principles, with the just
fear of God and love of our fellow men. We en-
grave those tablets something that Will
brighten to all eternity.
beauty of bravery and steadfastness. You let
your imagination wander in delight over the
memory of martyrs who have died for truth
And then some little. wretched. disagreeable du-
ty comes. which is your martyrdom. the lamp
for your oil; and if You will not do it, how your
oil is split How fat and thin and uuilluminat-
ed your sentiment about the martyrs runs out
over your selffndulgent life.
The Rev. DR. Til.ett, of Vanderbilt Univers-
ty, recently visited Mormon Sunday school
while in Salt Lake City. As he entered the in
FAINT class department temporary teacher was
saying: "Well. boys, where Is your teacherF
They all replied promptly in concert: s'In the
there for doing right or for doing wronef" All
replied, 'For doing right" DR.. Tilett learned
afrerward that the man in question WAS serving
a term for biRamy.
DIR. Arnold's daily prayer was as follows: 20
Lord. have a busy world around me; eye ear,
and thought will be needed for all my work to
oe done in this busy world. Now, ere enter on
it, would commit eye and ear and thought to
Thee. Do Thou bless them, and keep their work
Thine, that as through Thy natural laws my
heart beats and my blood flows without any
on its course at these times when my mind can.
not conspicuously turn to Thee to commit each
particular thought to Thy service. Hear my
prayer. for my dear Redeeiner's sake. Amen"
Rev. William Taylor Tbs nearer You come to
the end Of your days, You ought to hold earthly
things more loosely and prze heavenly things
more highly. When your business day 10 draw
ing to a close, you hasten to conclude your work,
dispatching sometimes in an hour more than in
all the day that went before. When Napoleon
went on the field Of Mareneo it was late in the
afternoon. and he saw that the battle was really
lost, but looking at tho western sun. he said:
There is just time to recover the day!' and Civ
ing ont his orders with rapid and characteristic
energy. he turned defeat into victory. So. al
though your sun is near TO setting. there 10 time
to recover the day. Avail yourself OF the even
tide, lest your life end in eternal failure.
We are not in this world merely for the little
things we can do, but also to have q work done
in us, to be trained and disciplined for the
higher service that awaits in the other life.
Parents seek train their children, but in doing
so they themselves trained. Teachers
teach their classes, but the reflex work which
is wrought upon their own lives is ofttimes
greater than that which they do for their
scholars. We sometimes chafe az the common
ness and the littleness of tho tasks that the
days bring We think we might do finer
things. But possibly these are the very duties
in the patient doing of which orr lives shall
grow into the rarest beauty and grace. AT
least, should remember always shat the
things we do not half so important tho
way do them and the effects upon ourselves
Of the doing of them